Bristol Counterfire
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Marx’s ecology: socialism and nature
Bristol Counterfire presents: Marx's ecology: socialism and nature Karl Marx's work covered a vast range of issues economic, philosophic and political. Most often people tend to focus on Marx's critique of capitalism as an economic system. Rarely is he thought of as someone who thought deeply about the environment. However, Marx's writings contain many reflections […]
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Capital @150: an introduction to Marx’s economics
Bristol Counterfire presents Capital @150: an introduction to Marx's economics September marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Marx's defining work of political economy Das Kapital. For a period, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union, Marxist economics remained marginalised. However, following the global financial crash of 2007 and subsequent recession, […]
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BOOK Launch: How the establishment lost control
"The post-war consensus is breaking up. The general election result, the 2014 Scottish referendum and the Brexit vote all testify to an insurgent mood amongst swathes of the population. This book attempts to explain these dramatic developments and to show how they question received notions about politics, history and how change happens." Come and hear […]
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Angela Davis: A Revolutionary Life
The second in our series of events commemorating 1968. Angela Davis has been a revolutionary socialist since the 1960s. Active as a member of the Communist Party of the USA, she opposed the Vietnam war and was notable for supporting the Civil Rights and Black Power struggles of the period. Davis is a lifelong anti-imperialist […]